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Stop this apples vs oranges false binary!Economists often use the 'apples and oranges' metaphor to signify impossible comparisons. However, the article argues that many dissimilar ...- Rig Veda to Ramayana, and Mark Tully to Vladimir Lenin find place in Eco SurveyThe 739-page Economic Survey 2025-26, tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, draws extensively from ancient texts like the Rig Veda...
- Lok Sabha elections as good as rigged: Development economist Jean DrezeDreze said five years ago, Arundhati Roy had described the 2019 elections as a race between a Ferrari and a few bicycles. "The metaphor is ...
- Gujarat model, a new seasonThere is general agreement among commentators that the recent landslide victory of BJP in Gujarat owes much to the enormous personal popula...
- View: Covid and China: The ‘C-factors’ in India’s Road to ‘Atmanirbharta’Heightened military tensions, severed diplomatic dialogues and broken Global Value Chains (GVCs) amidst a global pandemic have made a lasti...
- Food for thought apart, ample chaat & samosas on Davos thaliFood has always mattered in Davos which was first developed in the 19th century for sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients.
- This is what kept our celebrities awake in 2016From the suicide of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad to the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed at JNU, the young are a worried lot.
- Will Mayawati's social engineering succeed this time?Recent events in the country have seriously undermined the assimilation approach and undoubtedly given a tailwind to Mayawati’s ambitions i...
- After Honda & Maruti Suzuki, Toyota faces labour unrest in India; are Japanese cos insensitive?After Honda, Maruti, Toyota is facing labour unrest. Is it something to do with Japanese way of pushing workers, insularity to local nuance...
- Vedanta’s Rs 50,000-cr Odisha investment: How not to go about executing a mega project in IndiaVedanta group has almost everything to make aluminium. Just one problem: it doesn’t have the raw material, bauxite, and now has little hope...
- India's FDI in retail saga: From Wal-Mart to Agarwal-Mart?US and India are at different stages of market economics, especially in the in production, distribution and marketing of food produce.
- India needs new responses to current economic challengesIndia needs to come up with new ideas to tackle its many current challenges and then to put the economy on a sustained high-growth trajecto...
- 'Tightening credit alone may not rein in prices'The FM is aware of the damage inflation can cause to the aam admi, and his party. But his hands are tied as it's a supply-side issue.
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